(January 8, 2012 at 10:52 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: [chuckling] I've tried to train myself out of silly irrationalities like that. Some die hard. I counted the dog-earing of the paperbacks as progress. And then I picked up a foot-noted copy of Paradise Lost and planned to highlight in it, and couldn't do it.
The teachers at school constantly wanted us to write in our store-bought books (but not the school textbooks, of course) and it constantly pissed me off. I went through several packs of "erasable" pens one year when the teacher would check to see if we were scribbling notes in the margins. Fucking hated that.
I'm so glad I didn't go to your school then, I would have gotten in trouble because I'd flatly refuse.
That's what notebooks are for!
"No-one who decides that scientific evidence is not for him and that his own experience or the stories of others is the be all and end all of deciding what's true ever has the right to call people searching for reliable, repeatable evidence narrow-minded. That is hypocrisy of the most laughable kind." Derren Brown - Tricks of the Mind.
